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>Keywords: 199509271858.AA05287 Hi Jeremy, > Release : netCDF 2.3.2 > System : Cray J90 > OS : UNICOS 8.0.3 > > > Problem: > > The make procedes without problem as far as making the > fortran library. The m4 preprocessor fails making jackets.c > with the following error: > > ./fortc -L . -O unicos jackets.src > jackets.c > > m4:-:529 can't open file > divert(1) > > > m4 is failing at: > > M4__PROTO(`ncpopt', > `INTEGERSTAR(val)dnl' > ) The problem is that, at least on some CRAY systems, m4 won't accept the "-" argument to mean read from standard input. Here are two workarounds that CRAY sites have found successful: 1. Manually get around the m4 problem by using a temporary file. In netcdf/fortran/fortc, replace the lines sed -f $LibDir/fortc1.sed $InFiles | m4 $LibDir/common.m4 $LibDir/$OS.m4 - | sed -f $LibDir/fortc2.sed with sed -f $LibDir/fortc1.sed $InFiles > /tmp/fortcin.m4 m4 $LibDir/common.m4 $LibDir/$OS.m4 /tmp/fortcin.m4 | sed -f $LibDir/fortc2.sed delete the old netcdf/fortran/jackets.c file, and rerun the "make all". (At at least one site, however, reported that this solution didn't work, but we didn't get enough details to determine what went wrong.) or 2. Build the necessary jackets.c, netcdf.inc, and ftest.f files in the netcdf/fortran directory for UNICOS on a different UNIX platform, using the commands ./fortc -L . -O unicos jackets.src > jackets.c ./fortc -L . -O unicos common.inc > netcdf.inc ./fortc -L . -O unicos ftest.src > ftest.f then copy the resulting files back to the CRAY and run make again. Since the modification time on the files should be later than on the sources from which they are generated, the fortc that invokes the Cray m4 won't be used. ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu